Before Caitlin Clark: The hidden history of women's basketball w/Diane Williams | Edge of Sports
When Iowa's Caitlin Clark broke Kelsey Plum's NCAA women's points record, she was inaccurately named the highest scoring player in the history of women's collegiate basketball. But another player, Kansas legend Lynette Woodard, had actually scored more points in her career as part of the pre-NCAA Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). Clark has now also broken Woodard's record, but the confusion owes itself to the hidden early history of women's collegiate basketball. Professor Diane Williams of McDaniel College joins Edge of Sports to discuss this little-known early chapter of the sport.
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Audio Post-Production: David Hebden
Opening Sequence: Cameron Granadino
Music by: Eze Jackson & Carlos Guillen
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I'm from the UK, I wasn't a fan of NCAA Women's Basketball before now, but since watching Caitlin & Paige, i'm going to follow thier progress in the WNBA.🇬🇧❤👩🏀
Please Add Pearl Moore from AIWA as the woman who’s scored the most points as a female which she was before Lynette Woodard
@fingerpickingood1900
21 күн бұрын
Pearl played a totally different game. It was 6X6. I can only imagine how many points Caitlin would have scored playing that game. In 6x6 you have 3 players from each team on one end of the court. In this game you either played offense only or defense. Look it up. Not even the same game.
Great interview and history! I look forward to the book. Dave always brings the knowledge!
The Spurs should recruit Kaitlin, they need all the help they can get
Women sports are here to stay thanks to all the women that came before them it's really fun to see great athletes compete men or women
Iowa women's basketball goes back quite aways. Denise Long had a few 100 point games against good opposition back in the 60's. Denise could play and had a tryout with the Warriors. The Iowa girls state chapionship often drew 20,000 spectators. This was back in the 6 on 6 Iowa girls game. From Wiki: "In the 1968 Iowa girls' state high school championship game, Union-Whitten beat Everly 113-107 in overtime. Everly's Jeanette Olson scored 76 points and Denise Long of Union-Whitten 64."
1st Pearl Moore 2nd Caitlin Clark 3rd Lynette Woodard 4th Kelsey Plum 5th Daisha Fair (Syracuse)
@fingerpickingood1900
21 күн бұрын
Pearl Moore played a totally different game. She played 6x6. It's like comparing Field hockey with ice hockey. In this game you either played offense or defense, never both.
She should be on the US OLYMPIC BASKETBall team , And Olympic gold medal is bigger then Final four.
She's great when no one plays defense on her.
@jolsn42
25 күн бұрын
???? Try and make some sense.
Womens basketball goes back to the 1890s
The bottom line is that only two collegiate sports generate revenue: football and men's basketball. These programs subsidize all the others, including women's hoops. Title IX devastated a lot of men's programs: golf, wrestling, even baseball, because it required equivalent scholarships and funding for women whether or not they could fill them. It's insane to think any woman could play in the NBA. Please stop.
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Ali turned his back on Malcolm and endorsed Reagan...can we please stop acting like he was dope? Put rauf and Hodges and Ricky Williams up there
What's refreshing about women's basketball is that they actually play basketball men's basketball they're too busy showboating do you care about winning the game or losing the game